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Documents on Cambodian martyrs presented to Vatican (CWN)

The vicar apostolic of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, delivered to the Vatican almost 2,500 pages of documentation on the sainthood cause of his predecessor, Bishop Joseph Chhmar Salas, and 11 other Catholics martyred in the 1970s.

Pope Leo, Canada's Prime Minister Carney discuss AI, peace (CWN)

Pope Leo XIV and Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada spoke by phone this afternoon about artificial intelligence, four days after the publication of the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (CWN article, analysis).

Pope Leo XIV Meets With Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

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May. 29 Friday of the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Paul VI, Pope; <em>Ember Friday</em>, Weekday

Today is the Optional Memorial of Pope St. Paul VI (1897-1978). Paul VI was canonized and added to the General Roman Calendar on January 25, 2019, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. Giovanni Battista Montini was born on September 26, 1897, in a village near Brescia Concesio. On May 29, 1920, he was named Archbishop of Milan. He became Pope on June 21, 1963. He presided over the completion of the Second Vatican Council. He died on August 6, 1978.

Wanted: Faithful Builders for the AI Construction Site

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Notre Dame Rector Sexually Abused Students Over 17 Years, Report Finds

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PHOTOS: National Eucharistic Pilgrimage Processes Through Historic Savannah, Georgia

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Flourishing Traditional Marian Franciscan Community in UK to Be Dissolved

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10 Things Pope Leo Calls Us to Do in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’

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Ghana welcomes papal apology for slavery (BBC)

Ghana welcomed Pope Leo XIV’s apology for the Holy See’s complicity in the slave trade.

Ghana’s government stated that the apology “reinforces the growing global understanding that confronting historical injustices demands truth-telling and moral responsibility as essential foundations for justice and reconciliation,” the BBC reported.

The statement came two months after the United Nations adopted a declaration on slavery backed by Ghana’s foreign minister. At the time, Archbishop Gabriele Caccia, the new apostolic nuncio to the United States, criticized the declaration for its “partial narrative, which, regrettably, does not serve the cause of truth,” adding that “as early as 1435, Pope Eugene IV condemned the enslavement of the inhabitants of the Canary Islands and excommunicated those who refused to free them.”